From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: shemminger@osdl.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com, hadi@znyx.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kill rtnl_exlock stubs
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 18:59:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040728185923.304bac86.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4106A132.8040207@trash.net>
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 20:38:42 +0200
Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> wrote:
> Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > Rtnetlink has some macro's that are relics from earlier locking.
> > They are only used a couple of places so are easy to kill.
>
> The variable "exclusive" in rtnetlink_rcv_msg becomes useless with
> this patch. This patch (on top of Stephen's patch) removes it.
Both patches look fine, thanks guys.
I thought maybe Alexey might have had some fantastic
plan with exclusive locks, but this stuff has gone
beyond bitrot :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-29 1:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-27 16:50 [PATCH] kill rtnl_exlock stubs Stephen Hemminger
2004-07-27 18:38 ` Patrick McHardy
2004-07-29 1:59 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-07-29 13:16 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2004-07-29 14:43 ` jamal
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